India, Oct. 23 -- A United States-based Indian woman is among the 600 Meta employees affected by the recent layoffs in the company's AI division. The woman took to the social media platform X to seek other opportunities and was immediately flooded with messages from founders and CEOs of several smaller AI startups.

She clarified that she was working in the US on an H-1B visa, and would also require visa sponsorship from her new employer, if she did manage to land a job.

Meta will lay off 600 employees from its 'bloated' AI unit, the company confirmed to CNBC on Wednesday. The layoffs were announced in a memo from Meta's chief AI officer, Alexandr Wang.

Employees in Meta's AI infrastructure units, Fundamental Artificial Intelligence Res...